Desham United 4 - 0 Ilforth End

Key Events:

• 9' Yellow card to Ilforth End Luca Colombo
• 19' Yellow card to Desham United Tommy Hawkins
• 39' Desham United John Morrison scores, assisted by Gerhard Schneider
• 56' Desham United Xinping Boon scores
• 58' Yellow card to Desham United Alex Troncoso
• 63' Yellow card to Ilforth End Bruno Rossi
• 64' Desham United John Morrison scores, assisted by Xinping Boon
• 68' Desham United Luis Pinto scores, assisted by Alex Troncoso
• 79' Yellow card to Ilforth End Luis Pinto

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: Desham United finished with 4.73 xG and four goals, a modest underperformance against the chances created. The 23 shots, including 16 on target, tell the fuller story: the hosts generated enough attacking volume and quality to make the scoreline emphatic, even if the estimate suggests there was room for still more. Ilforth End recorded 1.21 xG but did not score from six shots, four on target. That gap points to opportunities without the finishing to change the match. Possession was close—52% to the visitors—but shots and xG were not; Desham United made its attacks count far more often.

No Ilforth End players recorded a rating of 7.0 or higher.

The scoreline was settled in a four-goal run of attacking returns, from Morrison’s 39th-minute opener to Pinto’s finish in the 68th. Ilforth End edged possession and completed passes more accurately, but those advantages did not translate into comparable pressure: six shots against 23 left the visitors with much less to work with. Desham United were not perfectly clinical by the xG measure, yet they were clinical enough to win 4-0. For Ilforth End, the figures offer a small consolation in possession and dribbles, but not one that survives contact with the final score.